in the context of gig-ether switch pricing I've been looking at pricing
again (sort of a weekly exercise these days) for small clusters ~16 nodes
you can do pretty awesome these days...
http://www.dlink.com/products/switches/des5600/
that's like $1300 for the switch and $1000 for each 4 port gig card, 16
ports 22Gb/s backplane.
so for the recoord that's 4300 / 16 = 268.75 per port
$269 per port for gig, so the switch is cheaper per port than the bay
networks ga620 gig cards we've been buying to put in the machines.
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